Account Manager (Creative / Agency)

Are you a top-performing Account Manager with a deep knowledge of the creative & digital process? Are you ambitious, strategic-led, and craving the mentorship and guidance of an experienced client-facing team?

On behalf of our client, a strategic and creative agency with a portfolio of well-known clients, we’re looking for a super suit with great communication and excellent project management skills to join their team in central Auckland. This exciting, hybrid Account Manager role involves a blend of creative, strategy, and digital projects which will keep you on your toes!

The ideal person will come with experience in publications and/or a design agency, as you’ll be managing annual report projects (ranging from strategic integrated reports to sustainability reports) as well as brand development, marketing, communications projects – tons of variety suited for an Account Manager looking to gain the experience to level up their career.

Not to mention, you will be paired with a highly experienced Account Director working across your client portfolio, so you’ll be set up to win with the necessary support around you.

Are you a go-getter suit ready to step up and apply yourself? Start by APPLYING TODAY! 

The breakdown

We are looking for a talented agency suit with: 

• 3+ years experience in a design agency, or with a publishing background
• Experience in a client-facing role, and/or project management

Proven results and experience in:

• Ownership of client projects, delivering work on time and within budget
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with key client portfolio
• Coordinating and delivering end-to-end creative, strategic and digital projects
• Running client briefing sessions and processing them into briefs
• Offering strategic input, and have a problem-solving approach
• Assigning projects and workload where appropriate through WIP planning
• Facilitating the process between strategy, design and studio internal teams
• Preparing project schedules, time estimates and budgets
• Proven project management capability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly organised, with effective workflow management

Are you someone who is…

• An excellent communicator and facilitator?
• Always switched on and proactive?
• Excellent attention to detail and yearning to learn?

The reward

• Great salary package of up to $90,000 per annum + Kiwi Saver
• Flexible hours, plus get 1 day to WFH
• Extra birthday day off!
• Social and fun culture – drinks on Fridays
• Opt into staff profit share
• Enjoy a collaborative, supportive and inclusive environment who want you to succeed
• Get that mentorship and guidance you crave
• & more…

Mandatory requirements

• Have full rights to work in New Zealand

Apply today

If this role sounds like you, apply today or e-mail [email protected] with a summary of why you may be interested in this position.